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Samuel P. Morris
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Hello saam,
Someone posted a thread the other day with a reversed serial number and from reading that thread it was mention that the correct serial number would be the one under the butt of the revolver. I would make it a point to contact S&W to cover your a -- because if that firearm is ever involved be it on your end or a criminal end you might have a hard time explaining how it got two different numbers on it. Serial numbers on firearms are even more taboo than stealing someone's Social Security number.
If that was my firearm I'd get rid of it. Not worth the hassle trying to explain or defend yourself. The weird thing is, to a collector it might be worth a good price, who knows right.
Get everything from S&W in writing to protect yourself.
Good luck.
p.s. Guantanamo Bay still has room.
Someone posted a thread the other day with a reversed serial number and from reading that thread it was mention that the correct serial number would be the one under the butt of the revolver. I would make it a point to contact S&W to cover your a -- because if that firearm is ever involved be it on your end or a criminal end you might have a hard time explaining how it got two different numbers on it. Serial numbers on firearms are even more taboo than stealing someone's Social Security number.
If that was my firearm I'd get rid of it. Not worth the hassle trying to explain or defend yourself. The weird thing is, to a collector it might be worth a good price, who knows right.
Get everything from S&W in writing to protect yourself.
Good luck.
p.s. Guantanamo Bay still has room.
Ashlander
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Those numbers are just manufacturer's marks so they can match parts for a particular gun in final assembly.
Steve C
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The serial number is always stamped on the frame of the gun and never on a removable or replaceable part. The number on the cylinder crane show on file Ip8J0GI.jpg is a manufacturing part number that has no relation to its serial number which is stamped on the bottom of the grip portion of the frame as shown on qbhSPW9.jpg.
German guns often have the last 4 numbers of their serial number stamped on parts but that is not the case with the S&W revolvers.
German guns often have the last 4 numbers of their serial number stamped on parts but that is not the case with the S&W revolvers.
What would be hard to explain about it? The serial number is on the butt. Anything else isn't the serial number. In some cases, it may happen to match up to the official serial number, but it's not THE serial number.
Having those numbers on a gun is hardly in the class of stealing a social security number.
Gitmo?
As noted, the serial number is on the butt and no other numbers on the gun mean anything after the gun build is complete. No problems with your gun and you are good.
Kernel Crittenden
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There's a million other S&W revolvers with similar and (now) meaningless assembly numbers on the yoke (and in other places).
Alk8944
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saam,
No one really told you what the specific numbers are, just hinted around! Here is the explanation:
Mod. 10-7 in the "Yoke Cut". This is the Model number, you have a Model 10.
18D7476 This is the Serial Number. This is the only number on the gun that is of any legal concern!
44559 on the "Yoke". This is the "Assembly number". It is to keep the major fitted parts of the revolver together during manufacturing. The same number will be found on the left side of the "Grip frame" parallel to the bottom of the butt where the serial number is located. It will also be found on the inside of the "Sideplate" if it is removed.
I certainly hope that Samuel P. Morris was trying to be funny with his comments about legal issues, otherwise that is one of the worst cases of "baloney" ever posted. The assembly number appears on every S&W hand ejector revolver ever manufactured during the past 119 years! The model number has been on nearly every S&W gun manufactured since ca. 1957!
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I don't believe Samuel P. Morris was trying to be funny . . . nor was he intentionally trying to mislead anyone . . . but believe he was thinking of a different situation in this thread:
http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-revolvers-1980-present/437298-serial-number-use-hmmm.html
Unlike saam's question in this thread . . . which is similar to many who raise the same question on assembly numbers . . . the referenced thread has two correctly formatted but different serial numbers, both of which are on the frame and in locations where serial numbers are customarily found.
Russ
Alk8944
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I am well aware of that post, I responded to it. Did you read that thread? If you go back and look at it and read my response maybe you will understand my post on this thread!
